King Crimson

September 26, 2017 10 Comments

Participants

  • Gabi
  • Daniel James
  • Bryan Finley-James
  • Robert Turk

Recordings

Production Notes

Robert Turk “I Talk To The Wind” from “In The Court Of The Crimson King” (1969) …

  • Instruments used… Fender Stratocaster Elite, Fender Precision Bass, Roland V-Drums TD-25KV (Jazz Combo setting), Mellotron app, Korg IM1 Synth app…I used Moog Model 15 app for the “wind” sounds…
  • Vocals are 4 tracks panned left/right/center (I will see if I can produce a version without the delay/echo effect on the L/R vocal tracks)
  • This was recorded using Amplitube on my iPad Pro using my Apogee Duet for AD/DA conversion.  I used AudioBus to move the sound around on the app.  Then i converted the wav file to Mp3 using iTunes.
  • I removed 2 earlier versions of my track that sucked.  I may replace this version with one where the guitars get louder sooner.

“Fallen Angel” covered by Daniel James

  • My schedule got insane, and it took me forever to get enough time to do this, so I had to stop production a little short.  Digital drums again, but otherwise relatively au naturale with just a tad of manual quantization here and there.  Also, I experimented a little with plug in filters and more manual automation.
  • Gear used:
    • DAW:  Ableton + Mac Mini + Tascam 1800
    • Vocals:  Voices into Audix OM7 running into a Line 6 HD500x.  Applied compression, filtered delay and added amp sim.
    • Guitar:  Self-customized HH Stratocaster, using the JB bridge pickup, into a Marshall JCM601 (and using it’s direct out into the daw).  Applied effects: octaver, rotary sim, phaser, delay, etc.
    • Keys:  Prophet 08 direct in, a few tracks with different voices.  Lead track ran through the Marshall clean channel with some grit.  Some effects applied: phaser, delay, etc.
    • Bass:  Warwick, but with single coil Seymour Duncan pickups, direct in.  Used a Zoom Bass Multistomp to put more umph into the bass (been putting a little more focus on bass lately). Added compression in daw.
    • Drums:  909 style in the daw via midi keyboard.  One track for cymbals, another for everything else.  Some compression and quantization applied.
    • Mastering:  Multi-band compressor and limiter.

10 thoughts on “King Crimson”

      1. Yeah, I somehow managed to cut 52 seconds off the album version. Not sure where, maybe I should have kept the Hey Jude bit going on longer at the end.

  3. Wow Robert, the extra work was so worth it. Sounds great! Are you using your Monterrey on the wah-ish guitar solos? (What pedals did you use?)

    1. Thank you Daniel! Pedals… wow, ok, I’ll try to explain about the pedals. First, I use an Xotic XW-1 wah-wah (which is killer, I highly recommend it) then I go into a Keeley 4 knob Compression Plus pedal, then my new Xotic AC/RC/Oz Oz Noy signature pedal. I skipped a few pedals, then hit my Monterrey but just the fuzz feature, not the left channel… then the other pedals that were on (I have 35 pedals but don’t have them all engaged) include:

      – TC Electronics Hall Of Fame Reverb 2
      – Keeley 30ms Delay
      – Fulltone Custom Shop DV-2 Univibe pedal w/ expression
      – TC Electronics Nova delay
      – EHX M9 Mellotron simulator in flute/cello modes
      – Earthquaker Devices Avalanche run
      – Keeley GC-2 limiting compressor
      – Dunlop volume pedal

      I’m pretty sure that’s what I had engaged at the time. I have an Xotic Effects X-Blender too that lets me cut out most of the pedals from the loop or blend in the effect level, which was set at about 75% and engaged.

      1. I’d also like to add that doing 8 attempts at this track DID pay off because I was very happy with the final output. A co-worker that I shared it with yesterday told me that it made her feel things… which made my day.

        I’m really glad we’re doing this project as I feel like my originals are getting better, and I’m getting good practice editing/mixing and engineering too.

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